When you shoot poorly and you're a bad shooting team, all mistakes are exaggerated. |
Yao is not blessed with anything except God-given size and great parents. Everything else has been worked for basketball-wise. There's a lot easier roads to becoming a really, really good player in this league. He had a difficult road, and he made it through his own internal drive to be great. |
Yao on the boards tonight was a monster. |
Yao was much more aggressive in the second half, but he's has to continue to come up big for us like this for us to win. |
Yeah, I'm not sure, |
Yeah, that's it. That's who we are. |
You can't explain it. He's the best road player in the league. |
You know what? It's about winning in this league. It's not about trying - that should be a given. |
You make less than half your free throws (actually 53.8 percent) and 10-for-47 from the 3-point line, and this is great basketball. (Rockets forward Tracy) McGrady was the only one to make a 3 for the West. |
You should get [effort]. You're not paid to try hard. That should be given. We're paid to produce, all of us, myself included. We're not right now. To lose the same way three straight games should be disturbing to all of us, because it shows that either we don't believe in what we're doing, we don't thrust [each other] enough, or the plan is flawed. |
You should never play at home on the second night of back-to-backs. Your home fans deserve the best you can give them. If you need to, play all your back-to-backs on the road, and never on national TV. They've done that, and sometimes the basketball is not the best. |
You're going to have to shoot the ball, make some shots, which we don't. We're a bad shooting team. |